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On Feb 14, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:

> Lev wrote:
> 
>> * arbitrary paste shape
>> * arbitrary solder mask openings
> 
> even more important: blind and buried vias. These are essential to deal 
> with FPGAs. 

Why doesn’t pcb already have these? I think it’s the same reason that many of us find it unusable. A circuit board is a stack of materials composed of simple shapes, but pcb can’t cope with that. Instead, to pcb a circuit board is a collection of specialized objects with peculiar properties interacting in idiosyncratic ways. I find this impenetrable. From some comments I’ve seen here, I guess the developers find this a worse problem than users do.

So, I suggest you not ask for more peculiar objects, but rather for a mechanism for the user to compose whatever object that user needs.

> 
> 
>> * 3D data - at least a height would be nice
> 
> 3D can be and should be delegated to specialized applications. 
> 
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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